In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Newbottle like this:
NEWBOTTLE, a village and a township chapelry in Houghton-le-Spring parish, Durham. The village stands1½ mile N N W of Houghton-le-Spring, and 2 N N E of Fence-Houses r. station; has a post-office under Fence-Houses; and is inhabited chiefly by colliers and potters. The chapelry contains also the colliery village of Philadelphia, and the hamlet of Bunker-Hill. ...
Acres, 1, 388. Real .property, £3, 620. Pop. in 1851, 2,067; in 1861, 2, 67 4. Houses, 517. The manor belongs to the Earl of Durham. A lurid blaze seems to be over all the surface at night, from the huge fires burning at the mouths of numerous neighbouring coal-pits. The living is a p.curacy, united with the chapelry of Herrington, in the diocese of Durham. Value, £420.* Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1850; and is a neat stone structure, in the later English style. The parsonage was built in 1866. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
Newbottle through time
Newbottle is now part of Sunderland district. Click here for graphs and data of how Sunderland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Newbottle itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Newbottle, in Sunderland and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2963
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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